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November 27, 2025

Bird flu poses pandemic risk worse than Covid, French Institute says

Ducks are seen inside a poultry farm in Castelnau-Tursan, France. —Reuters The bird flu virus that spreads among wild birds, poultry and mammals could lead to a pandemic worse than Covid-19 if the virus mutates to be transmitted between humans, the head of the respiratory infections center at France’s Pasteur Institute said. Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has killed hundreds of millions of birds in recent years, disrupting food supplies and driving up prices, although human infections remain rare. “What we fear is that the virus adapts to mammals, and especially to humans, it can be transmitted

July 19, 2025

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Trump pulls us from global health pandemic reforms

US President Donald Trump is preparing to sign an executive order at the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, 31 March 2025. – Reuters Washington: President Donald Trump’s administration said on Friday that the United States rejects the changes that were agreed last year for the World Health Organization to react to the pandemic, saying they had violated the country’s sovereignty. Trump to return to the office on January 20 began immediately withdrawing its nation from the UN body, but the Foreign Ministry said that the language from last year would continue to bind the United States.

April 24, 2025

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Funding of assistance disrupts children’s vaccinations almost as much as the pandemic, the UN says

The United Nations headquarters is depicted with a UN logo in Manhattan Municipality of New York, New York, USA, 1 March 2022. – Reuters Global aid cuts, led by the United States, have disrupted efforts to vaccinate children against deadly diseases as well as the Covid-19 pandemics, the United Nations said on Thursday. Homes of infectious diseases, including measles, meningitis and yellow fever, are increasing worldwide. Emergency vaccinations and ordinary vaccinations were significantly affected in almost half of countries in early April due to funding cuts, according to reports from the World Health Organization’s offices to 108 largely low and

April 4, 2025

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Oil prices are reduced to lower levels than 2021 pandemic

Listen to the article Oil prices sank by 8% on Friday, heading to the lower than the height of the Crown Pandemic in 2021. This dramatic decline was caused by escalating tensions in the world trade war between the US and China. In retaliation for President Trump’s recent pricing hikes, China has announced plans to impose an additional 34% invoice on all US goods from April 10. World markets reacted abruptly, with Brent contracts falling by $ 5.30, or $ 7.6%, to $ 64.84 a barrel by 1254 GMT, while US West Texas Intermedia (WTI) decreased $ 5.47 or 8.2%to

March 31, 2025

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Randall Park’s stunning admission about pandemic stress comes to light

Randall Park’s stunning admission about pandemic stress comes to light The Randall Park recently took honest and opened for the dark side of the social media, sharing its struggles before leaving it forever. Speech PEOPLEThe 51-year-old American actor and director revealed that he had left the social media for good, having had a number of panic attacks during Covid-19 in October 2020. Park said: “I was in social media for a while, and then during the pandemic, it was such a scary time. THE Stimulation Astera continued to state that the pandemic made him “suddenly” to start panic attacks, saying:

March 10, 2025

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Five years ago, which is the pandemic closes the world in action

A physician worker in a protective suit collects a coating from a resident in an improvised nucleic acid test position, following cases of crown disease (Covid-19) in Shanghai, China March 1122.-Reuters Geneva: Five years ago on Tuesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Covid -9 had become a pandemic-a time when people eventually woke up to disaster. Who had already heard his own higher alarm five weeks earlier. But this warning – which does not mention the word “P” – had escaped. At a press conference on March 11, 2020, United Nations Head of Health Service Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

January 27, 2025

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Bill Gates warns of a “possible” global pandemic within the next 25 years

Listen to the article Bill Gates has warned that another global pandemic is “likely” to happen within the next 25 years if a major war is avoided. Speaking to a US news outlet, the Microsoft co-founder highlighted the current global turmoil and said: “If we avoid a major war… then, yes, there will be another pandemic.” Gates, who has spoken about the world’s preparedness for pandemics, raised concerns about how well-equipped nations were for the COVID-19 outbreak. In his 2022 book, How to prevent the next pandemicGates discussed the need for better quarantine protocols and greater investment in vaccine research.

December 11, 2024

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Human trafficking rises sharply after decline during pandemic: UN

A man holds up a placard during a protest against ‘human trafficking’. — Unscrew /file VIENNA: Human trafficking has increased sharply due to conflict, climate-induced disasters and global crises, according to a United Nations report published on Wednesday. In 2022, the latest year for which data is widely available, the number of known victims worldwide rose to 25 percent above pre-pandemic levels in 2019, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Global Report said on Trafficking in Persons. A sharp decline in 2020 had largely disappeared by the following year. “Criminals are increasingly trafficking people into forced labour, including

August 7, 2024

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KARACHI: Something about adapting a plague for the stage is fundamentally different from a story of star-crossed lovers, I observe to Meher Jaffri. He takes a moment to think about it. The theater proclaims a visceral character of its own. Tragedy or farce, the scene relies on the body as its fatal mode of transmission. So what happens when a plague story takes the body itself as a crisis and brings it to the stage? Meher’s upcoming work, The White Plague, is one way to explore this. The production is all set to return to the Karachi Arts Council this

July 19, 2024

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Business

Japan sees record surge in tourist arrivals after pandemic

Climbers gather on the first day of the climbing season on the Fuji Yoshidaguchi Trail (Yoshida Trail) at the fifth station on the slopes of Mount Fuji, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan on July 1, 2024. — Reuters In the first half of 2024, Japan saw a remarkable increase in foreign visitors, reaching a new record of 1.78 million, surpassing pre-pandemic levels by one million, the national tourism body said on Friday. The weakened yen has contributed to this surge, attracting tourists to indulge in a wide range of Japanese experiences, from traditional kimonos to high-quality knives and fine cuisine,

Bird flu poses pandemic risk worse than Covid, French Institute says

Trump pulls us from global health pandemic reforms

Funding of assistance disrupts children’s vaccinations almost as much as the pandemic, the UN says

Oil prices are reduced to lower levels than 2021 pandemic

Randall Park’s stunning admission about pandemic stress comes to light

Five years ago, which is the pandemic closes the world in action

Bill Gates warns of a “possible” global pandemic within the next 25 years

Human trafficking rises sharply after decline during pandemic: UN

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Japan sees record surge in tourist arrivals after pandemic

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